TITLE: Dear Colleague Letter: Cyberlearning Opportunities in the
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) (nsf14032)
DATE: 1/27/2014
NSF 14-032
Dear Colleague Letter: Cyberlearning Opportunities in the Directorate for
Education and Human Resources (EHR)
January 27, 2014
Emerging technologies have the potential to transform learning
opportunities, increase interest in learning, and enhance learning
outcomes for people in the workforce and in every educational level
and outside of formal education. NSF recently released the
Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning) program
solicitation ([1]NSF 14-526) that states "The program has two goals:
(1) to invent, explore, and learn to effectively use the new
technologies that will address society's educational goals and (2) to
advance understanding of how people learn and how to better foster
learning in the context of the new kinds of learning experiences that
technology makes possible." Cyberlearning is jointly managed by the
Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering;
Education and Human Resources; Social, Behavioral and Economic
Sciences; and Engineering.
The purpose of this DCL is to invite proposals that support the goals
of the Cyberlearning program and do so in the context of the EHR
programs listed below. EHR is particularly interested in projects that
propose to design, develop, and evaluate technological resources,
tools, and models for fostering and assessing STEM learning; to
advance understanding of how to foster STEM learning; and to study the
cognitive, social, cultural, neurobiological, volitional,
epistemological, and other processes involved in such learning. EHR
programs that accept proposals with cyberlearning components and
features include:
* EHR Core Research ([2]ECR)
* Advancing Informal STEM Learning ([3]AISL)
* Discovery Research K-12 ([4]DRK-12)
* Improving Undergraduate STEM Education ([5]IUSE)
* Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers
([6]ITEST)
* STEM-C Partnerships: Math and Science Partnership ([7]MSP)
* Research on Education and Learning ([8]REAL)
* Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate ([9]AGEP)
* Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology
([10]CREST) and HBCU Research Infrastructure for Science and
Engineering (RISE)
* Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program
([11]HBCU-UP)
* Tribal Colleges and Universities Program ([12]TCUP)
The above EHR programs also participate in NSF's Foundation-Wide
programs, which also welcome cyberlearning proposals: EAGER, RAPID,
INSPIRE, and CAREER. Additional investments made in cyberlearning
through targeted EHR programs will be coordinated with the
Cyberlearning program and may involve joint post award activities and
monitoring.
Sincerely,
Joan Ferrini-Mundy
Assistant Director
Directorate for Education and Human Resources
References
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WT.z_pims_id=504984&ods_key=nsf14526
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5. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504976
6. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5467
7. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505006
8. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13667
9. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5474
10. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6668
11. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5481
12. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5483